The most recent annual results from a four-year Iowa State
University study by Ken Moore, Distinguished Professor of
agronomy and primary investigator on the project, reveal that
using cover
crops can lead to higher yields - by as much as 10 percent
. The results are the best yet in the ongoing research. Moore
plans to continue on the trials for at least one more growing
season.

Dan Shechtman will meet
the media during several events at Iowa State University
and the Ames Laboratory on Feb. 14. A news conference from
10-11 a.m. will be live
streamed here. Shechtman -- an Iowa State professor of
materials science and engineering, a research scientist for the
Ames Laboratory and the Philip Tobias Professor of Materials
Science at the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology -- won
the 2011 Nobel Prize in Chemistry for his 1982 discovery of
quasicrystals.

A new beginning for State Gym

ISU Recreation Services Director Michael Giles Jr., Government
of the Student Body President Dakota Hoben, President Steven
Leath, and Vice President for Student Affairs Tom Hill helped
the university community celebrate the grand reopening of State
Gym and its 94,000-square foot addition on Feb. 3. The
ribbon-cutting marked the completion of renovation and
construction of Iowa State's recreation facilities.
Recreation services staff report more than 60,000 visits to
State Gym during its "soft" opening in January.

The MacArthur Award is based on a combination of the
achievement of the school's commissioning mission,
cadets' performance and standing on the Command's
national Order of Merit List, and cadet retention rate. Cadet
Command and the MacArthur Foundation have given the awards
annually since 1989.

Iowa State's ROTC represents Cadet Command's 3rd
Brigade, which consists of the 40 senior Army ROTC programs in
the Midwest. Cadet Command is located in Fort Knox, Ky.

In December, the Cyclone Army ROTC Battalion at Iowa State was
named the top program in the 3rd Brigade.

In the news

Could Google's data hoarding be good for you?

BBC News

With the news that Google is to
merge data collected from its many platforms -- including
YouTube, Gmail and Blogger -- privacy advocates say the company
will have more information than it should. And experts -- such
as Jeff Blevins, associate professor and director of
undergraduate education in ISU's Greenlee School of
Journalism -- say even before this change, web users had too
little control over their online information.

“Return of the Pyromaniax”: a round-up of 10 hot projects

Biofuels Digest

In September, Iowa State University's Robert C. Brown and a
team of researchers said that pyrolytic molasses, made via fast
pyrolysis of feedstocks such as such as corn stalks or wood
chips, has the potential to be the
cheapest way to produce biofuels or biorenewable chemicals.